EXPLORING COLLABORATION IN ACTION: KAHUKURA COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Appendix 3: Social Network Analysis Survey information and consent Background and consent Please ensure that you read the below information before beginning this survey:
Introduction and background ERO is undertaking an evaluation of the Community of Practice and its contribution to responsive and collaborative learning for its students and teachers. As part of this evaluation, ERO is undertaking this survey with staff who belong to one of the seven schools that belong to the Community of Practice. This survey should take no more than 10-15 minutes of your time.
What is the purpose of this survey? This survey will be used to inform a social network analysis (SNA) of the Community of Practice. SNA is used to understand a community by mapping the relationships that connect people and help draw out how information and resource flow across a community. The results from the SNA survey will be used to inform ERO’s final evaluation on the Community of Practice.
What will this survey ask me? This survey will ask you about the people you commonly work with in your school, and from outside of your school. To ensure ERO can effectively map the communication network that you have in your CoP, we will ask you for the names of people you work with professionally, and for what purposes. The value of SNA will come about when the responses from across the CoP are combined. The more people that respond to this survey, the more accurate the analysis will be.
How will ERO treat my information? ERO recognises the need to treat the information you provide us with the utmost confidentiality. As soon as ERO receives the responses, we will re-code each name into alphanumeric codes before we begin analysis. For example, John Dory would be recoded to XF1. Any analysis that is reported publicly will not identify any information that is traceable to you, such as your name, the name of your contacts, or the names of schools in the CoP. Please note that as a public sector agency, ERO is subject to the Official Information Act 1982. If you have any questions before beginning, you can close this survey and come back to it later.
Consent I have read the information and understand how my information will be used upon my completion of this survey. I understand that I am not required to answer any questions and can choose to stop taking part in the survey at any point. Upon my completion of this survey, I understand that ERO will: • not report on any details I have personally provided to this survey. • replace any names I enter with alpha-numeric codes • use my responses to only inform the social network analysis for the CoP.
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